Ever wondered who decided we should eat three meals a day? Join me as I question the historical origins of this eating pattern and its relevance today. I’ll dive into my personal approach to intermittent fasting, exploring different methods and the freedom it provides from traditional meal schedules. Whether you’re curious about intermittent fasting or need some inspiration to make healthier choices, this episode offers a blend of insights and personal stories that could resonate with you.
Ever wondered who decided we should eat three meals a day? Join me as I question the historical origins of this eating pattern and its relevance today. I’ll dive into my personal approach to intermittent fasting, exploring different methods and the freedom it provides from traditional meal schedules. Whether you’re curious about intermittent fasting or need some inspiration to make healthier choices, this episode offers a blend of insights and personal stories that could resonate with you.
The Lovey Mishy Bi Podcast. Let's inspire each other right. Well, for me, that is one of my favorite things in the whole world. I only need one. I just need one soda. It's not like I'm having a whole box of sodas or a whole bottle of soda. It's one soda a day, but it's every day. I do not typically miss having my one soda a day. I can't explain it. It brings me joy and brings me happiness. Yet I know it's so, so bad for me. And because I know it's so bad for me, I know I need to probably cut it out of my life. And I haven't been able to do it. I did do it once, back six years ago. It was yeah, it was about six years ago and I went for like a whole year, year and a half, and did not have any soda. I switched to having, obviously, water and unsweet iced tea. I hate sweet tea I'm in Texas, I know, but I do not like sweet tea at all because of that year and a half that I didn't have anything and that was like my present to myself to not just have water, to be able to have an alternative to water. So I chose unsweet iced tea, green tea and water. That's what I had for a year and a half.
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I was also on the path and the journey of intermittent fasting. It's where I actually learned about intermittent fasting, which I'm so grateful to, because back then I was doing it very routine. I was, you know, I'm all or nothing. It's everything or it's nothing with me. I'm, for myself, unable to walk the line in the middle. The middle, I don't know what it is. It's really how I have to live my life, because I know if I get one little taste of something, I'm going to want to go back to it. I'm like, oh, you know why not? You only live once. Yolo. You know what I mean. And it's just not the case. I'm self-aware, but in this intermittent fasting journey I took a deep dive. I learned everything I possibly could about intermittent fasting and I learned a lot, and everything I learned just sounds like something I could easily be a part of, because you don't have to deprive yourself, you're just not eating in a window of time, so for me, I wouldn't eat till 11 or 12. So, basically, skipping breakfast, but if you really think about it just for two seconds, okay, open your mind. If you're not about this life, just open your mind for a second. Give me that.
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Who came up with the idea of three meals a day? Oh, let's look. It says it was the 17th century that the working lunch started, where men with aspirations would network. The middle and lower classes eating patterns were also defined by their working hours. By the late 18th century, most people were eating three meals a day in towns and cities. So basically three meals a day.
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Which I'm a Gen Xer. Okay, I was raised through the 80s and 90s. It was studied. They would have health class and they would show us all the groups, the bread groups and the fruits, and everything had a category and you had to have one of each and it was just important for your health. And eat three meals a day, have to have breakfast it's so important. I learned it's not. I learned it's not.
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I've been doing this for a long time, naturally because I'm not doing like a regimen, it's just listening to my body. So back then somebody decided that this is what would be good for everyone. It's not good for everyone. So with intermittent fasting, I you're supposed to stop, you know, and it's like you know, go, I don't know, 12 hours, 16 hours and not have food and then you can consume food for the other portion of the day. Just depends on which process and which routine you follow. There's different sets. Some are tighter windows where you can only eat within a four hour window, and some is an eight hour window. But for me, I was trying to stop eating about seven or eight at night, not eat anything after that and then not consume food again until 11 or 12 the next day.
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Yeah, it was a really hard thing to break for me. Originally I would watch the clock. I would just watch the clock like oh my God, what am I going to eat? Oh my God, you know. And till I broke it, till I broke it now eating breakfast, I'm just typically not hungry. So I do one of two things I either have breakfast and don't have lunch, or I have lunch and do not have breakfast. I typically, most nights, have dinner.
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Do I eat healthy all the time? No, I do crave salads, though Majority of the time it's just you ask my kids, I will. I'm going to do that one day. I'm going to say hey, what is, what do I like to have the most of? Let me ask Hannah. Let's ask Hannah right now. She's going to say what Cause we're in the same house right now. Why are you calling me Hi? Um, I have a question for you, okay. What if somebody were to ask you what is your mother's favorite food? What would you say? You don't even have one. What do I? What do I want? Most of the time, salad, yeah, okay, I just I'm doing, I'm doing an episode and I was like I crave salads all the time, and you know when people say that they're lying typically.
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So I was like let me call my daughter and ask her to prove what my favorite food is. Um, yeah, I love it. I could. I could go for a big, monstrous one tonight for dinner actually. Okay, love you, bye, okay. So I just wanted to call and let you know that I'm not like making this up. So I crave salads, and when you go periods of time without putting food into your body, you are actually giving your body a chance to heal.
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I knew back then because when I was studying intermittent fasting, I knew back then that it would play a huge part in menopause and so it would help people going through it or while you're in it. It just it helps your body. I guess somehow, some way. And well, because I've been doing it since then for six or seven years, I don't feel like my symptoms of menopause are big. I don't. I didn't really know I was in menopause at all until I had gone a full year without getting my period and my full year was in October of 2023. So I am officially there. I'm happy about it. I mean, I guess it can be nerve wracking to think I don't even have the option of having kids, but luckily for me, it wouldn't even be an option for me now, because I don't want any more kids. I have three. I'm very happy with the three that I have.
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But there is that little voice in my head saying you can't, even if you wanted to, to know that, even though I don't like having my period every month, it was something that kind of bonded me with other women that we all did. It was just something that we all had, you know. And so when I hear now that I don't have my period anymore, when I hear people go, oh my God, I go get pads, I just got my period, I'm like, okay, well, yay for me. I don't know I'm I'm conflicted on it. I'm a bit conflicted on it, but I think the overall feeling is I'm very glad I don't have to have that anymore. Yeah, I am, but the one sign that I had besides that to know that I was in menopause was it was perimetopause and I had frozen shoulder. I think that was the one sign that I didn't know, that nobody knew. They thought it was diabetes, which ironically it also was that, but that was the only sign.
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I am not able to judge if I was extremely high and low in my moods, if I was set off easily, I'm not able to judge that because I wasn't in a relationship at the time that I was going through it. So it's just me and my kids, so I don't know if that happened. There are times I've probably could count three times, maybe four where I've got really, really flushed. Now that I'm thinking back, I remember being out with my friend Renee and we were eating and we had both gotten an alcoholic drink and alcohol goes straight through me. I'm not a big drinker, so I drink it and, like if it has hard alcohol in it, my stomach will start to burn and I'll have to wait 20 minutes and then I'm you know, and then I'm feeling the effects of the alcohol. But I have to get through that. 20 minutes of absolute torture, uh, so it's not worth it to me. I don't know that beer doesn't really do that to me, but hard alcohol does.
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So I was having like a margarita or something, and all of a sudden I got so red out of nowhere and she's like what is happening? Your face is so red right now, and I felt hot, and I was just like I don't know. She's like are you getting a hot flash? Are you drunk? And I'm like could be one of the two, could be both, I have no idea. That is really, though, the only time I can remember it really being that extreme once, and that I wasn't even in menopause yet. So I don't know. Every once in a while I'll get cold or I'll get warm, but I'm never uncomfortable with it, and I truly think it's because of my intermittent fasting. I believe that 100%.
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I say all this to say that I want to quit soda. I don't know if I'm going to quit today. I will let you know when I actually take the full plunge that I'm going to quit soda, but I will be doing it, I just don't know when. But the thing about it is, if I was to quit today and then tomorrow had a soda, I would be hard on myself. I would feel like I've let myself down. I would be ashamed of myself. And this is a small thing.
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So imagine if you are a gambler and it's detrimental to you and you go and you gamble and you lose all your money. Imagine if you're an alcoholic and you know you can't drink because you can't handle it. You can't just have one beer. You have the whole case and you don't stop. I know, if that is something that you're going through, that it may seem like the world is caving in because you have gone days or weeks or months without doing these things and then you made a mistake. I know it feels like the weight of the world is on you and I am sorry that you're feeling that way, but I need you to forgive yourself.
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You can't succeed without some bumps in the road. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. It's hard. It's hard that self-growth. It's hard to try to better yourself. The easier road is to just do whatever the fuck you want. The harder road is to have that determination and willpower to better yourself. It's harder.
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So if you're feeling like that right now, I want you to look at the success you've had, whatever it is. Can you just do me that favor? First of all, the first success was that you decided to do it. You decided to do it. Nobody forced you. You did it for you. Congratulations. Not everybody can do that. The second success is you actually put those words into action and you didn't just say it. Congratulations on that. Now you messed up.
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What are you going to do about it? You're going to sit there and wallow and have another drink, have another piece of cake, or are you going to try again? Are you going to pick yourself back up and start again? Well, I think you're going to start again, because I believe in you. I do. I believe in you. Do not hate yourself. Do not think you're a failure. You're not On this journey. You're going to fall down, you're going to scrape your knee, and it's the people that can pick themselves back up, dust themselves off and start again that are going to make it. They're going to get to the other side. All you can do is take the first 24 hours. Take that first 24 hours and keep moving. Do not think past that. Only this 24 hours. What's in front of you right now. If you keep doing that every single day, when you look back you're going to have a whole lot of days, a whole lot of 24-hour victories.
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I'm not an expert, I'm just a human that has tried and failed and picked myself back up and sometimes was able to start again, and sometimes I wasn't. Like I said, I quit soda six, seven years ago. Here I am drinking a soda a day, so I obviously did not succeed, but I did succeed for a year and a half and I'm damn proud of it and I'll succeed again. Just got to prep myself for it because, gosh, I love me some bubbles. I hope that I was able to touch somebody today. I hope that somebody said you know what I do, forgive myself. And if that happened, today was the best show I ever had. I will be back next week Monday with Edwana Ross. She is a lupus survivor and we talk for two and a half hours, so I have so much editing in my future, but I learned so much from her and she truly is one of a kind and I look forward to sharing that journey with you.
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I'm Christy Chanel. This is Love. You Miss you Bye and I will see you next Monday. Love you, miss you bye. L-u-m-u-b podcast Love you, miss you Bye has been brought to you by Christy Chanel LLC, but if you're looking for more information or want to follow us on social media, go check out christyschanelcom. All the podcasts are streamed there and the YouTube episodes are there, so why not? You can also listen where all podcasts are streamed. This includes Apple Podcasts and Spotify. And lastly, thank you to you. You, yeah, you, the one that's listening or watching. I appreciate you so much. Love you, miss you bye.